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[International Student Careers Blog] Jobs: Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Pashto « International Student ...: We would like to hear from people with expertise in the Middle East and/or Asia as it is essential you can offer one, or preferably a combination of the following languages - Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Pashto - as well as excellent English.

[Persian Farsi] Why are Arabic and Persian (Farsi) in different language families?: Before the Arabic invasion the language spoken in Persia was Pahlavi and they used to write by a modified version of the Aramaic alphabet, while one century and a half after the conversion of Persia to the Islam they elaborated a modified version of the Arabic alphabet. So Islam is the only tie between those two languages.

[GupShup Forums] Seeking English to Arabic/Farsi/Pashto/Urdu transcription help ...: URL, Google displays the Urdu representation which contains the the Character "Che" which is not present in the Arabic character set.

[Motorola Development Community] How Disable Or Enable Usb Charging In Firmware - Motorola ...: Today Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and China are the main non-Arab states using the Arabic alphabet to write one or more official national languages, including Persian, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Uyghur.

[Breaking News] Blackwater running covert recruitment drive in Pak through its website: WASHINGTON - Iran has shut down opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's website that was the only source for US officials to monitor events in the Islamic country, according to a media report Saturday. State Department officials, who have been monitoring events in Iran from Dubai via Mousavi's website "Kalemah", said the website - the opposition leader's last link to the outside world - was completely shut down, the Fox News reported

[War on Terror - Terrorism] LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4000 sources, including ...: The necessary cadre of U.S. intelligence personnel capable of reading and speaking targeted regional languages such as Pashto, Dari and Urdu "remains essentially nonexistent," the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence wrote in a rare but ....

[Roleplay Online with RolePlayGateway] The World at War (OOC, Sign-ups) : Out of Character: Aimaq, Alviri-Vidari, Arabic (all dialects), Ashkun, Ashtiani, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Avestan, South Azerbaijani, North Azerbaijani, Bactrian, Bakhtiari, Western Balochi, Southern Balochi, Bashkir, Bashkardi, Belarusan, Brahui, Chagatai, Chechen, Chorasmian, Chuvash, Crimean Turkish, Dargwa, Zoroastrian Dari, Dari (Eastern Farsi), Darwazi, Dezfuli, Domari, Dungan, Erzya, Western Farsi, Farsi (Persian), Gawar-Bati, Grangali, Gujari, Georgian, German, Hazaragi, Ingush, Jakati, Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Kalmyk-Oirat, Kiswahili, Kamviri, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Karakhanid, Kati, Kazakh, Khorezmian, Kirghiz, Korean, Northern Kurdish, Lak, Lezgi, Lithuanian, Malakhel, Mogholi, Munji, Halh (Mongolian), Manichaean Middle Persian, Nogai, Old Ossetic, Osetin, Ormuri, Pahlavani, Parthian, Parya, Southern Pashto, Northern Pashto, Western Punjabi, Parachi, Parsi-Dari, Prasuni, Pashayi (all dialects) Romanian, Russian, Sakan, Savi, Shumashti, Sanglechi-Ishkashimi, Shughni, Sogdian, Tabassaran, Tajiki, Tagshewi, Tirahi, Tregami, Tatar, Tsakhur, Turkish, Turkmen, Udi, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Urdu, Southern Uzbek, Northern Uzbek, Wakhi, Waigali, Warduji, Wotapuri-Katarqalai, Yagnobi, Yazgulyam

[SparklyWater] Which languages do you speak? - SparklyWater: Arabic itself sounds quite coarse compared to a lot of the Indo-European languages that I am used to. I like Arabic as it is a very complicated language and you need very little words to get your message across, because for every detail you have independent vocabulary/verb to use.

[Frontline 2.0] Pros and Cons of NYPD Counter Terrorism Division - Frontline 2.0: Rather than build legal cases for convictions, he shows how the NYPD's counter terror division of several hundred officers focused on applying "standard police procedures," - that is arrests on unrelated or "dubious" crimes to intimidate would-be terrorists or even recruit informers. "[This] would be largely out of bounds to the FBI or the CIA," Dickey told one interviewer about the book.

[The Hegemonist] Farsi and the Foreign Service: Last week, I got a comment from a hopeful FSO who’s planning on learning Farsi to improve his chances of getting hired.  That got me thinking.  Although it is without doubt in the interest of the United States of America that the Department have people who can speak and read Farsi, in my estimation, it unfortunately isn’t in the individual interest of any Foreign Service Officer to learn Farsi.  Here’s why.

[Small Wars Council] Which foreign language will be most valuable in the next 20 years ...: If the Middle East is their focus (though our major national security challenges could well be much closer to home to our south, the nearest source of growing instability and migration to the US; or Asia, where the economic focus will continue to shift, with resultant competition at a variety of levels and venues between the US and emerging nations there), Arabic is always a safe bet.

[neweurasia.net] neweurasia.net » Language is the key to national self-determination: labour migration) and the rest of Eurasia like English does in India and Pakistan, there is definitely ground and need to strenghten Tajik-Farsi. If it is to do that, however, I think it inevitably has to revert to the Farsi-Arabic script because only as a part of a wider Farsi sphere it can gain a strong position.

[Pakistan Politics] Visitors Views & News - Week 3, August 2009 « Pakistan Politics: a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

[Hazara News Pakistan] Please Read! and COMMENT « Hazara News Pakistan: are the descendants of Genghis Khan’s Mongolian soldiers, who marched into central Afghanistan in the 13th century, built a garrison, and conquered the inhabitants”a varied mix of peoples not uncommon along the Silk Road. When the locals rose up and killed Genghis’s son, the conqueror retaliated by leveling Bamian and wiping out most of its residents.

[Intercultural Communication and Translation News] Intercultural Communication and Translation News » Blog Archive ...: Four centuries later, Persian was chosen as the court language by the Mogul rulers, who were major patrons of Persian literature, unlike the contemporary Safavids in Iran. It was at the courts of India and Turkey where many of the major traditional dictionaries of Persian were compiled from the mid tenth to the eighteenth centuries, simultaneously a Persian vernacular was developed in India and it was from here that the English officers of the East India company learnt Farsi before abolishing it as an official language of the Indian courts in 1837.

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